Events
We’ve been working with students to envision what GOV.UK could look like in years to come, helping them to develop career skills and allowing us to explore innovative approaches. Find out how the project went.
GDS is launching an ‘Introduction to Content Design’ course on FutureLearn. Sign up now and read about one learner’s experience from the course pilot we ran last year.
We held the fifth cross-government content conference - ConCon5 - in London on Wednesday 15 March. It was the biggest yet, with over 275 people attending on the day and 73 watching the live stream.
We’re now on our fourth content conference, and we learn each time we run them. For the first time, we had more presenters from outside GDS than inside GDS. That’s important because the content community is far broader than GDS. …
...Things and our education improvement theme - Holly Garrett, Product Manager Content operating model - our plan and user research findings - Trisha Doyle, Head of Content We’ll make sure...
What happens when you get 40 content designers in a room? We tested this theory at the content design meetup in Newcastle on Tuesday 21 June and learned about accessibility, user research and forms.
We’re re-running a couple of workshops from past content conferences, one practicing pair writing and one to help people submitting content change requests to GOV.UK content designers at GDS. Writing good content change requests We know a lot of people …
I know many of you are having trouble getting places on our training to write for and publish on GOV.UK. So I wanted to give you an update. We’ve been busy Since April we‘ve trained about 1,100 people in about …
...a better description for what we do than 'proposition managers'. Second, in response to a number of requests, we’ve created a new inbox for GOV.UK enquiries. It’s the place to...
...of us from DVSA, the Department for Work and Pensions, the Disclosure and Barring Service, HM Revenue and Customs, the Office of the Public Guardian, the National College for Teaching...